After two days of waiting, the negotiations over the national minimum wage hit another brick wall yesterday. At the end of yesterday’s meeting, the Federal Government negotiating team raised its offer by N2,000 bringing its total minimum wage offer to N62,000 while the Organised Labour reduced its demand to N250,000 from N494,000. The state governors…
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, have suspended the nationwide strike. This is to give room for uninterrupted meetings with the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage. This was confirmed by TUC chairman, Festus Osifo on Tuesday. Labour leaders had a meeting with the Secretary to the Government of…
There are indications that the organised Labour may end its strike over the new minimum wage as it reached an agreement with the Federal Government on Monday. After a six-hour meeting in Abuja, the Federal Government expressed the commitment of President Bola Tinubu to raising the N60,000 offered as the minimum wage. The meeting, held…
The President of the Manufacturing Association of Nigeria (MAN), Mr. Ajayi Kadri, has confirmed that the organized private sector concurred with the federal government that the new minimum wage should be N60,000. Ajayi disclosed this information during an interview on Saturday in Abuja. The MAN president explained that the ongoing negotiations between the government and…
The Federal Government has pleaded with Organised Labour to reconsider its decision to embark on an indefinite strike from Monday, June 3, 2024, in protest against the government’s refusal to raise the proposed minimum wage from N60,000. The interest of the masses should be the top priority of Organised Labour, the Federal Government stressed. The…
The Organised Labour on Tuesday walked out of the Tripartite Committee meeting on Minimum Wage after the Federal Government increased its offer to N60,000. A source privy to the meeting which took place in Abuja, told newsmen that the federal government increased its offer by N3,000 thereby taking the whole amount to N60,000. The source,…
The Edo State Government has begun paying the N70,000 new minimum wage to workers in the state. This is in fulfillment of the promise to increase the minimum wage from May 2024. During the recent inauguration of the Labour House in Benin City, the state capital, Governor Godwin Obaseki announced the increase of the minimum…
By Yetunde Oke Pensioners in the South West, says the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) are not asking for too much as regards the new minimum wage. This was made known in a statement issued by the Southwest Zonal Public Relations Officer of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, Comrade Olusegun…
The tripartite committee on new minimum wage has adjourned till next Tuesday, May 28 to continue deliberation after Wednesday’s meeting in Abuja ended in a deadlock again. The Federal Government, the organised private sector and the organised labour failed to reach a consensus on the new minimum wage at the Wednesday meeting. Sources at the…
By Adebayo Yusuf Some Public Affairs Analysts, have urged federal government to settle for 100,000 naira and above as a benchmark for new minimum wage. The Analysts, Mr Adesumbo Badejoko, Mr John Njoku and Mr Kayode Adejumo-Bello made this known while featuring on Pensioners FM Current Affairs programme, Voice of Liberation. According to them, if…